[Exit Fabio.

Leave us awhile. ‘You fondly hoped,’ Alvaro—

So much I heard, connected with my name;

And I perhaps have something on that text

Would clear the matter up to both of us.

‘You fondly hoped’—was ’t not that I might be

So frail, so lost to shame, and so inconstant,

That for the loss of husband, home, and honour,

Lost in one day, I might console myself

With being in his arms, who robb’d me of all!